iPad App Store Hits 3 Billion Downloads

The growth of Apple’s iPad has been mind blowing in all areas. In fact, when it first launched, it was considered to be a failure, but now the iPad has become a PC replacement for many. Apple’s iPad sales have not only been amazing, but App Store growth has been too.

Now ABI Research, a research firm, has announced in a press release that 3 billion applications have been downloaded since the iPad first launched in 2010. In addition, the iPad represents nearly a fifth of all cumulative iOS downloads, despite the fact that it debuted nearly three years after the iPhone, and two years after the iOS App Store opened. Also, it is estimated that 120,000 applications have been created specifically for the iPad available on the App Store as of the third quarter of 2011. That number sounds consistent with news that appeared last June after the number of applications on the App Store passed 100,000. ABI’s data does not include iPhone applications, which can also be run from the iPad but do not take advantage of the iPad’s larger screen.

In the end, Android and Android tablets are still “winning” though. Yay, oh wait…

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